image link The other ones were simple play Us, though, for real in ev’ry way Hurt brings life to shadow of death you walk, not talk, with silent breath; our growth at bay. * Mind in turmoil, throat has a lump, Our future can’t end o’er a bump! It wasn’t that bad — or was…
Category: OctPoWriMo
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
Day 1 — Surrender
* The ponds lie beyond the yard, beyond the fields, beyond thick brush between here and there. Each year the brush multiplies, ever more impassable, they seem ever farther away. This year the ponds were not seen, as the path leading to them has overgrown, and trees have fallen over it, from thunderstorms with sheer…
#OctPoWriMo2018 and more
https://media0.giphy.com/media/igrSs5Prw7AEo/giphy.gif OCTOBER WRITE POETRY MONTH 2018! October Write Poetry Month 2018 is coming up. I participated in the 2017 one and found it very enjoyable. At first it was daunting thinking about coming up with a brand new poem every day for 31 days. It was a challenge, and I discovered I was up to…
Day 31 — OctWriPoMo — Pearl Jam
image link Today is the final day of the 31 days 31 poems challenge of OctWriPoMo. My choice of form is the acrostic, and the subject is one of my favorite musical groups, Pearl Jam. The words used are all PJ song titles. Present tense, push me, pull me Even flow, Amongst the waves, animal,…
Day 29 — OctWriPoMo — TAP TAP!
image link Taken directly from the shadow poetry website: This form is “Synchronicity” (The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related.). This form consists of eight three-line stanzas in a syllable pattern of 8/8/2. This poetry type has no rhyme and is written in…
Day 28 — OctWriPoMo — WORK and TRAIN
image link Today’s offerings are two poems in the Clarity Pyramid form. The first is pretty clear, it is about a sense of belonging at my job, which is in a human service field. The job is challenging, demanding, and would be impossible to do without the support of my co-workers! WORK human comradeship…
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